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Bartrons M, Trochine C, Blicharska M, Oertli B, Lago M, Brucet S. Unlocking the potential of ponds and pondscapes as nature-based solutions for climate resilience and beyond: Hundred evidences. J Environ Manage 2024; 359:120992. [PMID: 38704953 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Revised: 04/05/2024] [Accepted: 04/20/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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Unlocking the full potential of ponds (small water bodies) and pondscapes (network of ponds) as Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is critical pursuit for enhancing ecosystems and societal resilience to climate change and other societal challenges. Despite scattered initiatives for pond/pondscape creation, restoration and management-each considered here a distinct NbS-there is a significant knowledge gap in utilising ponds/pondscapes as effective NbS. We aimed to assess these NbS in terms of their objectives, outcomes, effectiveness, multifunctionality, delivery of potentially conflicting effects, and the implementation process while considering their Nature's Contributions to People (NCPs, i.e., benefits to society). We compiled data on 183 NbS actions implemented across 93 ponds/pondscapes from 24 countries, predominantly from Europe, via a questionnaire distributed to experienced stakeholders implementing NbS in ponds/pondscapes. One single pond/pondscape may imply more than one NbS action. Two-thirds were in rural areas, and one-third in urban settings. Our analysis revealed that Creation of habitat for biodiversity was a primary delivery objective (targeted NCP) in the implementation of most NbS in ponds/pondscapes, often also combined with other NCPs such as Learning and inspiration, Regulation of water quantity, and Physical and psychological experiences, showcasing their intended multifunctionality. Implemented NbS primarily focused on climate change adaptation (especially Regulation of hazards and extreme events, and water quantity) rather than mitigation, with less emphasis on measures like direct greenhouse gas emissions reduction or enhancing carbon sinks. The costs associated with pond's NbS varied significantly depending on factors such as project scope, objectives, location, socio-economic-cultural system, and specific implementation requirements. The creation of ponds/pondscapes often entailed the highest financial investment, much more than their restoration or their management. In conclusion, our study underscores the multifunctionality of ponds/pondscapes and provides insights about their significant potential as cost-effective NbS for enhancing ecosystem and societal resilience to climate change and biodiversity. It underscores the importance of further research to fully understand and measure the diverse range of NbS they offer, particularly in the context of climate change mitigation. Standardised measurements of the NCP provided by these NbS in ponds/pondscapes are essential for validating managers' claims and exploring their role in addressing climate change.
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- Mireia Bartrons
- Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, 08500, Vic, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, 08500, Vic, Catalonia, Spain; Department of Ecology, INIBIOMA CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Comahue, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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- Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- HEPIA, HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, 150 Route de Presinge, 1254, Jussy-Geneva, Switzerland
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- Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, 08500, Vic, Catalonia, Spain; ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain
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Craig JP, Alves M, Wolffsohn JS, Downie LE, Efron N, Galor A, Gomes JAP, Jones L, Markoulli M, Stapleton F, Starr CE, Sullivan AG, Willcox MDP, Sullivan DA. TFOS Lifestyle Report Executive Summary: A Lifestyle Epidemic - Ocular Surface Disease. Ocul Surf 2023; 30:240-253. [PMID: 37659474 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtos.2023.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/04/2023]
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The Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) Workshop entitled 'A Lifestyle Epidemic: Ocular Surface Disease' was a global initiative undertaken to establish the direct and indirect impacts of everyday lifestyle choices and challenges on ocular surface health. This article presents an executive summary of the evidence-based conclusions and recommendations of the 10-part TFOS Lifestyle Workshop report. Lifestyle factors described within the report include contact lenses, cosmetics, digital environment, elective medications and procedures, environmental conditions, lifestyle challenges, nutrition, and societal challenges. For each topic area, the current literature was summarized and appraised in a narrative-style review and the answer to a key topic-specific question was sought using systematic review methodology. The TFOS Lifestyle Workshop report was published in its entirety in the April 2023 and July 2023 issues of The Ocular Surface journal. Links to downloadable versions of the document and supplementary material, including report translations, are available on the TFOS website: http://www.TearFilm.org.
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- Jennifer P Craig
- Department of Ophthalmology, New Zealand National Eye Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, University of Campinas Campinas, Brazil
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- College of Health & Life Sciences, School of Optometry, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Optometry and Vision Science, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
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- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Surgical Services, Miami Veterans Administration, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Federal University of Sao Paulo/Paulista School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Centre for Ocular Research & Education, School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Foulds C, Khalid R, Jensen EA, Sule O, Lorenz L. Social responsibility in research and innovation practice and policy across global regions, institutional types, and fields: Interview data and qualitative content analysis outputs revealing the perspectives and experiences of professionals. Open Res Eur 2023; 3:65. [PMID: 37645483 PMCID: PMC10445911 DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.15688.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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The European Commission-funded RRING (Responsible Research and Innovation Networked Globally) Horizon 2020 project aimed to deliver activities that promoted a global understanding of Socially Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). A necessary first step in this process was to understand how researchers (working across Global North and Global South contexts) implicitly understand and operationalise ideas relating to social responsibility within their day-to-day work. Here, we describe an empirical dataset that was gathered as part of the RRING project to investigate this topic. This Data Note explains the design and implementation of 113 structured qualitative interviews with a geographically diverse set of researchers (across 17 countries) focusing on their perspectives and experiences. Sample selection was aimed at maximising diversity. As well as spanning all five UNESCO world regions, these interview participants were drawn from a range of research fields (including energy; waste management; ICT/digital; bioeconomy) and institutional contexts (including research performing organisations; research funding organisations; industry and business; civil society organisations; policy bodies). This Data Note also indicates how and why a qualitative content analysis was implemented with this interview dataset, resulting in category counts available with the anonymised interview transcripts for public access.
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- Chris Foulds
- Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
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- Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute for Methods Innovation, Dublin, Ireland
- Thriving Natural Capital Challenge Centre, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Edinburgh, UK
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- School of Management, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
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- Policy Research Unit, International Consortium of Research Staff Associations, Cork, Ireland
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Craig JP, Alves M, Wolffsohn JS, Downie LE, Efron N, Galor A, Gomes JAP, Jones L, Markoulli M, Stapleton F, Starr CE, Sullivan AG, Willcox MDP, Sullivan DA. TFOS Lifestyle Report Introduction: A Lifestyle Epidemic - Ocular Surface Disease. Ocul Surf 2023; 28:304-309. [PMID: 37121544 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtos.2023.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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- Jennifer P Craig
- Department of Ophthalmology, New Zealand National Eye Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, University of Campinas Campinas, Brazil
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- College of Health & Life Sciences, School of Optometry, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
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- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Surgical Services, Miami Veterans Administration, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Federal University of Sao Paulo/Paulista School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Centre for Ocular Research & Education, School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Kroll H, Schubert T. Can University Leaders Effectively Promote Research on Complex Societal Challenges? A Change-Agency Perspective. High Educ Policy 2023:1-18. [PMID: 37360955 PMCID: PMC10013281 DOI: 10.1057/s41307-023-00307-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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In recent years, new expectations have been placed on universities, demanding academic contributions towards solving large-scale, interdisciplinary challenges. This is in conflict with existing insights from university governance research, which emphasises that scientific communities focus on reproducing disciplinary practices that are unsuitable in addressing societal challenges, because the problems associated with them are usually large-scale, complex and interdisciplinary. In light of this seeming paradox, we revisit the question of how-and on which theoretical grounds-universities may still be able to develop suitable internal governance mechanisms that allow them to address complex societal challenges effectively. Because university leaders are usually unable to coerce individual researchers to address such challenges in their research simply through their bureaucratic powers, we will argue that university leaders can, however, leverage individual researchers' agency to deviate from routine and disciplinary practice by developing novel or legitimising existing interdisciplinary scripts necessary to deal with such societal problems. Specifically, we outline that university managements can create a dual role consisting of the communication of legitimising interdisciplinary research on societal challenges, as well as providing for the necessary degree of interdisciplinary coordination by convening researchers around these topics.
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- Henning Kroll
- Fraunhofer ISI, Breslauer Str. 48, 76139 Karlsruhe, Germany
- Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography, Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 50, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Fraunhofer ISI, Breslauer Str. 48, 76139 Karlsruhe, Germany
- CIRCLE, Department of Design Sciences, Lund University, Sölvegatan 16, 22362 Lund, Sweden
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Rifai H, Quevedo JMD, Lukman KM, Sondak CFA, Risandi J, Hernawan UE, Uchiyama Y, Ambo-Rappe R, Kohsaka R. Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia. Ambio 2023; 52:546-555. [PMID: 36484926 PMCID: PMC9849659 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01811-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Revised: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Seagrasses offer diverse ecosystem services, yet, they are among the most threatened ecosystems. When degraded or destroyed, their services are lost or reduced in the process, affecting, for instance, local communities directly dependent on their livelihood provision. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that climate change is projected to worsen over time; thus, there is an urgent need for mitigation strategies in practice and also in the longer term. This work aims to provide an alternative perspective of seagrass restoration as a nature based solution (NbS) on a global scale, yet, giving an emphasis on tropical regions such as Indonesia. We focused on seagrass restorations which are not yet well established in comparison with other restoration programs (e.g., mangroves) despite their critical roles. We present in this work how restoring seagrass meadows fits the global standard of NbS published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The results of this study can serve as a basis for promoting seagrass restorations as NbS against climate change particularly in countries with a wide extent of seagrass coverage.
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- Husen Rifai
- Research Center for Oceanography - National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Jl. Pasir Putih 1, Ancol Timur, Jakarta, 14430, Indonesia
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
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- Research Center for Oceanography - National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Jl. Pasir Putih 1, Ancol Timur, Jakarta, 14430, Indonesia
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- Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Sam Ratulangi University, l. Kampus, Bahu, Kec. Malalayang, Manado, Sulawesi Utara, 95115, Indonesia
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- Research Center for Oceanography - National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Jl. Pasir Putih 1, Ancol Timur, Jakarta, 14430, Indonesia
- Marine Research Center, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Jl. Pasir Putih 1, Ancol Timur, Jakarta, 14430, Indonesia
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- Research Center for Oceanography - National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Jl. Pasir Putih 1, Ancol Timur, Jakarta, 14430, Indonesia
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- Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, 3-11 Tsurukabuto, Nada-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo, 657-850, Japan
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- Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Marine Science and Fisheries, Hasanuddin University, Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan Km. 10 Tamalanrea, Makassar, 90245, Indonesia
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan.
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Stier J, Smit SE. Co-creation as an innovative setting to improve the uptake of scientific knowledge: overcoming obstacles, understanding considerations and applying enablers to improve scientific impact in society. J Innov Entrep 2021; 10:35. [PMID: 34603927 PMCID: PMC8475873 DOI: 10.1186/s13731-021-00176-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Impact-driven research is a EU priority and, increasingly, for universities around Europe. Still, there is need for specific strategies to improve the societal impact of scientific knowledge and therewith improve the uptake of scientific results. Co-creation deeply evolves the role of scientific knowledge and increases its impact. Albeit there is much research on the conceptualization and contextualization of co-creation, research on the microlevel dynamics of co-creation is less common. This article aims to understand the dynamics of and clarify the role of co-creation within and between quadruple helix actors (academia, government, industry and societal partners). Here, co-creation refers to the collaboration, where such actors actively join forces to address challenges. This paper revolves around insights from the European Commission Horizon 2020-project-Accomplissh (www.accomplissh.eu) which stands for "Accelerate co-creation by setting up a multi-actor platform for impact from Social Sciences and Humanities". The results lay bare a set of obstacles, areas of consideration and enablers in co-creation. This said, it is argued that scientific knowledge is optimally utilized when a set of guidelines or recommendations are followed and carried out by all involved actors.
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- J. Stier
- Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden
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Dushkova D, Haase D. Methodology for development of a data and knowledge base for learning from existing nature-based solutions in Europe: The CONNECTING Nature project. MethodsX 2020; 7:101096. [PMID: 33163370 PMCID: PMC7600359 DOI: 10.1016/j.mex.2020.101096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Within CONNECTING Nature, we are dealing with developing innovative nature-based solutions (NBS) for climate change adaptation, health and well-being, social cohesion and sustainable economic development in European cities. In order to enable "learning by comparing" and "generating new knowledge" from multiple NBS related studies, a novel data and knowledge base is needed which requires a specified methodological approach for its development. This paper provides conceptual and methodological context and techniques for constructing such a data and knowledge base that will systematically support the process of NBS monitoring and assessment:•A methodology presents the comprehensive, multi-step approach to the NBS data and knowledge development that helps to guide work and influence the quality of an information included.•The paper describes the methodology and main steps/phases for developing a large data and knowledge base of NBS that will allow further systematic review.•The suggested methodology explains how to build NBS related databases from the conceptualization and requirements phases through to implementation and maintenance. In this regard, such a methodology is iterative, with extensive NBS stakeholders' and end-user's involvement that are packaged with reusable templates or deliverables offering a good opportunity for success when used by practitioners and other end-users.•The NBS data and knowledge base gathers information about different NBS models and generations into one easy-to-find, easy-to-use place and provides detailed descriptions of each of the 1490 NBS cases from urban centers in Europe.•The data and knowledge base thus helps users identify the best and most appropriated NBS model/type for addressing the particular goals and, at the same time, considers the local context and potential.•The data obtained can be used for the further meta-analysis by applying statistics or searching for specific sample cases and thus enables to generate and expand the knowledge from multiple NBS related studies, in both qualitative and quantitative ways.
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- Diana Dushkova
- Department of Geography, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Geography, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
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Conejo AN, Birat JP, Dutta A. A review of the current environmental challenges of the steel industry and its value chain. J Environ Manage 2020; 259:109782. [PMID: 32072951 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2019] [Revised: 10/14/2019] [Accepted: 10/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The steel industry is the largest consumer of energy in the world among industrial sectors. It is generally acknowledged that energy and environment are intimately related. Steel production is an energy intensive process that has a significant environmental impact. This paper reviews the progress made on energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions and water consumption in the steel industry worldwide. The reduction in the availability of fresh water resources combined with the effects of global warming and climate change have increased pressure on industries, especially steel, to reduce its overall pollution, and specifically its water and carbon footprint. The implications of these effects on the value chain is discussed in this review. The contribution of new emerging technologies of iron and steelmaking is also reviewed. Finally, the important issues that contribute to define a sustainable industrial activity such as the recycling of steel and of by-products of steel production are studied. The history of steel industry is full of lessons, one of which is the need to keep the dreams alive. There are indeed expectations to solve problems created by technical progress.
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- Alberto N Conejo
- School of Metallurgical and Ecological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, PR China; Ferrous Metallurgy Research Institute (FeMRI), Circuito Paseo de Las Flores 700, 58080, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
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- KU Leuven, Departement Materiaalkunde, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44 Bus 2450, B-3001, Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium.
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Breure AM, Lijzen JPA, Maring L. Soil and land management in a circular economy. Sci Total Environ 2018; 624:1125-1130. [PMID: 29625527 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2017] [Revised: 12/10/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This article elaborates the role of soil and land management in a circular economy. The circular economy is highly dependent on the functioning of soils and land for the production of food and other biomass; the storage, filtration and transformation of many substances including water, carbon, and nitrogen; the provision of fresh mineral resources and fossil fuels; and the use of their functions as the platform for nature and human activities. Resource demand is increasing as a result of the growing human population. In addition to the shrinking availability of resources resulting from their unsustainable use in the past, our planet's diminishing potential for resource production, due to a range of reasons, is leading to resource scarcity, especially in the case of depletable resources. As an economic system that focuses on maximizing the reuse of resources and products and minimizing their depreciation, the circular economy greatly influences, and depends on, soil and land management. The concise management of the resources, land and soil is thus necessary, to make a circular economy successful.
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- A M Breure
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands; Radboud University, Department of Environmental Science, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
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- Deltares, Daltonlaan 600, 3584 BK Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Bartke S, Boekhold AE, Brils J, Grimski D, Ferber U, Gorgon J, Guérin V, Makeschin F, Maring L, Nathanail CP, Villeneuve J, Zeyer J, Schröter-Schlaack C. Soil and land use research in Europe: Lessons learned from INSPIRATION bottom-up strategic research agenda setting. Sci Total Environ 2018; 622-623:1408-1416. [PMID: 29890606 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2017] [Revised: 11/28/2017] [Accepted: 11/28/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We introduce the INSPIRATION bottom-up approach for the development of a strategic research agenda for spatial planning, land use and soil-sediment-water-system management in Europe. Research and innovation needs were identified by more than 500 European funders, endusers, scientists, policy makers, public administrators and consultants. We report both on the concept and on the implementation of the bottom-up approach, provide a critique of the process and draw key lessons for the development of research agendas in the future. Based on identified strengths and weaknesses we identified as key opportunities and threats 1) a high ranking and attentiveness for the research topics on the political agenda, in press and media or in public awareness, 2) availability of funding for research, 3) the resources available for creating the agenda itself, 4) the role of the sponsor of the agenda development, and 5) the continuity of stakeholder engagement as bases for identification of windows of opportunity, creating ownership for the agenda and facilitating its implementation. Our derived key recommendations are 1) a clear definition of the area for which the agenda is to be developed and for the targeted user, 2) a conceptual model to structure the agenda, 3) making clear the expected roles, tasks, input formats regarding the involvement and communication with the stakeholders and project partners, 4) a sufficient number of iterations and checks of the agenda with stakeholders to insure completeness, relevance and creation of co-ownership for the agenda, and 5) from the beginning prepare the infrastructure for the network to implement the agenda.
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- Stephan Bartke
- Umweltbundesamt, Wörlitzer Platz 1, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany; UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Permoser Str. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Deltares, Postbus 85467, 3508 AL Utrecht, Netherlands.
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- Umweltbundesamt, Wörlitzer Platz 1, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany.
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- StadtLand U.G., Stieglitzstrasse 84, 04229 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Instytut Ekologii Terenów Uprzemysłowionych, Kossutha 6, 40-844 Katowice, Poland.
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- French Geological Survey, 3 avenue Claude Guillemin, BP 36009 - 45060 Orleans Cedex 2, France.
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- Dresden International University, Freiberger Str. 37, 01067 Dresden, Germany.
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- Deltares, Postbus 85467, 3508 AL Utrecht, Netherlands.
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- University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
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- French Geological Survey, 3 avenue Claude Guillemin, BP 36009 - 45060 Orleans Cedex 2, France.
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- ETH Zurich, I. f. Biogeochemie/Schadstoffdyn. CHN G 47, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Liland A. ICRP Fukushima dialogue seminars: joint learning at many levels. Ann ICRP 2016; 45:92-98. [PMID: 28952351 DOI: 10.1177/0146645316680582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
The Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority and representatives from the CERAD Centre of Excellence participated at the majority of the International Commission on Radiological Protection dialogue seminars in Fukushima between 2011 and 2015. The open and sharing structure of the seminars contributed to an unprecedented understanding of the challenges faced by the general public affected by radioactive contamination due to an accident at a nuclear power plant. Most importantly by presentations from people in Fukushima, but also by presentations from lay people in Norway and Belarus who shared their experiences from the Chernobyl accident at several seminars. The seminars created new friendships and connections, which inter alia led to several exchange visits between affected people in Norway and Japan where worries and experiences could be shared in an open and reflective manner. The mix of actors (various experts, authorities, local populations) created joint learning across sectors and levels, representing an invaluable source of knowledge for organisations involved in nuclear and radiological emergency preparedness and planning.
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- A Liland
- Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority and CERAD Centre of Excellence, P.O. Box 55, No-1332 Østerås, Norway
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